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<blockquote data-quote="Chaosmancer" data-source="post: 7992822" data-attributes="member: 6801228"><p>Yeah, setting dependent in the extreme. After all, most pantheons in DnD include a God of Magic. It would be pretty weird if Pelor's followers started burning wizards at the stake for practice magic, when the temple of Boccob is just down the street. </p><p></p><p>There is only one old-school setting where magic is bad, and that is Dark Sun. Everywhere else, including Ed Greenwood's FR, it makes no sense for wizards to hide their casting.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I think you are confusing magical thinking and faith with Awe. I don't generally want to be that guy, but definition time "a feeling of reverential respect mixed with fear or wonder "</p><p></p><p>Let's take stars. People used to pray to the stars because they thought the stars could act upon the world. </p><p></p><p>Nowadays, people don't pray to the stars. We know that they are not human like spirits in the sky, instead they are giant balls of exploding nuclear fusion, boiling cauldrons or energy millions of times more massive than our entire planet, whose warmth and energy allow all life to exist, and death will end in our extinction. </p><p></p><p>I don't pray to the sun, but saying I don't feel a sense of wonder and fear towards it, is an entirely different matter. In fact, knowing that it cannot be reasoned with makes it more awesome (in the old sense of the word meaning to increase awe) because I know that praying won't make a difference. </p><p></p><p>Just because you don't believe in falsehoods that cause you to pray to something, does not mean you suddenly lose the ability to see wonder, beauty and fear within it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Chaosmancer, post: 7992822, member: 6801228"] Yeah, setting dependent in the extreme. After all, most pantheons in DnD include a God of Magic. It would be pretty weird if Pelor's followers started burning wizards at the stake for practice magic, when the temple of Boccob is just down the street. There is only one old-school setting where magic is bad, and that is Dark Sun. Everywhere else, including Ed Greenwood's FR, it makes no sense for wizards to hide their casting. I think you are confusing magical thinking and faith with Awe. I don't generally want to be that guy, but definition time "a feeling of reverential respect mixed with fear or wonder " Let's take stars. People used to pray to the stars because they thought the stars could act upon the world. Nowadays, people don't pray to the stars. We know that they are not human like spirits in the sky, instead they are giant balls of exploding nuclear fusion, boiling cauldrons or energy millions of times more massive than our entire planet, whose warmth and energy allow all life to exist, and death will end in our extinction. I don't pray to the sun, but saying I don't feel a sense of wonder and fear towards it, is an entirely different matter. In fact, knowing that it cannot be reasoned with makes it more awesome (in the old sense of the word meaning to increase awe) because I know that praying won't make a difference. Just because you don't believe in falsehoods that cause you to pray to something, does not mean you suddenly lose the ability to see wonder, beauty and fear within it. [/QUOTE]
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